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has anyone seen big jim mclean? it is a great movie to see and in fact if you have time tonight if you go to youtube and put into the box john wayne beats up commies you will get the final scene of big jim mclean and you can watch it because it is an enjoyable moments. what the story line which comes out in the time the election is heating up and by the way john wayne is a political character, he is very big in the reelect mccarty movement. he is also asked after the convention what do you think about the ticket and mccarty says i think dick nixon will make a fine vice president. no mention of eisenhower because he doesn't really like eisenhower. that is joseph mccarthy obviously but that is the person that wayne is biggest in support of and big jim mclean is out in 1952, the story of a tough guy, big jim, constantly mentioned that he is 6 foot 3 or something throughout the movie on many occasions. he is working for the house un-american activities committee. this is big gym. big jim goes out to hawaii to break up a
has anyone seen big jim mclean? it is a great movie to see and in fact if you have time tonight if you go to youtube and put into the box john wayne beats up commies you will get the final scene of big jim mclean and you can watch it because it is an enjoyable moments. what the story line which comes out in the time the election is heating up and by the way john wayne is a political character, he is very big in the reelect mccarty movement. he is also asked after the convention what do you...
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actually chosen by the state party process but roosevelt and his top aides who were louis whole and jim felt that if he got into these as many races as possible and he won as many of them as possible that the states would realize which way the tide was going and get on the board and that is pretty much the policy that he followed. she was a big irish men shaking hands with folks for the year before some of the people from the midwest who were asked why they want to get in the campus because jim came and asked and nobody else did. he's a very gregarious type that collected delegates left and right at that point and he's the governor of the largest state at that time which of the largest number of electoral votes and so they automatically had an advantage over their opponents. but his predecessor the democratic candidate was l. smith who had run in 1928 and smith was the head of the empire state building in those days which was nicknamed the mt state building because after they built it nobody moved into it. only the observation deck was making money initially and smith was spending all o
actually chosen by the state party process but roosevelt and his top aides who were louis whole and jim felt that if he got into these as many races as possible and he won as many of them as possible that the states would realize which way the tide was going and get on the board and that is pretty much the policy that he followed. she was a big irish men shaking hands with folks for the year before some of the people from the midwest who were asked why they want to get in the campus because jim...
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jim farley, one time chairman of the democratic party and postmaster general wanted the job but roosevelt didn't feel he was up to the job. another person who wanted the job was henry wallace who was vice president but he wasn't going to be given the task of remaining on as vice presidential candidate. he was considered too flaky and that is still another story. a conservative in the south wanted the job was harry bird of virginia. the elder harry byrd. there were two in the senate. in the democratic national convention in mid july 1944 harry byrd carried three 7 states in the convention but when roosevelt carried all the other states the chairman of the convention samuel jackson, the senator from indiana said i would like to declare this unanimous. so of course of all the others changed their votes and he was voted unanimously as presidential candidate for a fourth term. he couldn't get anybody interested but he wanted henry kaiser to be a candidate possibly to succeed him. henry kaiser had no political ambitions. no one knew whether he was a democrat or a republican. who was henry kaise
jim farley, one time chairman of the democratic party and postmaster general wanted the job but roosevelt didn't feel he was up to the job. another person who wanted the job was henry wallace who was vice president but he wasn't going to be given the task of remaining on as vice presidential candidate. he was considered too flaky and that is still another story. a conservative in the south wanted the job was harry bird of virginia. the elder harry byrd. there were two in the senate. in the...
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that's a roundabout for saying question jim lehrer or somebody, to the two candidates, should the supreme court look to foreign law in making its rulings? why or why not? and watch obama squirm around that question. hope mitt romney can say something sensible about it, which i kind of that. but that kind of question should been asked, instead of the questions you get from george stephanopoulos on contraception, was happen the last few days. anyway, again a complicated question but they're little things i can start turning this in a different direction. would be journalists and questioners in debates and party leaders asking our candidates to talk about these things. we don't do it that much. thank you all very much. [applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> in shreveport weekend on booktv, next, and "the battle of the berezina" louisiana state university shreveport professor mikaberidze details napoleons escaper from the russian army in november 1812. watch an inter
that's a roundabout for saying question jim lehrer or somebody, to the two candidates, should the supreme court look to foreign law in making its rulings? why or why not? and watch obama squirm around that question. hope mitt romney can say something sensible about it, which i kind of that. but that kind of question should been asked, instead of the questions you get from george stephanopoulos on contraception, was happen the last few days. anyway, again a complicated question but they're...
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jim solar merkle whole thing that she misunderstood said i believe the future of the year will dominate our discussions in the coming days. the city that has more herb bridges in any other in the world as pittsburgh. >> congratulations to pittsburg she asked? president romney thought. no. just congratulations. the prime minister of canada it joined a group and introduced himself. are you a french canadian origin? know i am not. but i am canadian the state stone said are you a french canadian origin to the guy next to him. know i am david cameron. he looked at harper then cameron that and he said brothers? cousins? uncle? no. at that point* they were joined by the prime minister of japan him and president romney were introduced. are you about 55 or 60? and my clothes? and 56 years of age said the prime minister formally. your name sounds french canadian. [laughter] with i don't suppose you are of french canadian origin? >> no i am not. >> congratulations. [laughter] hitting a grand slam home run in 1950 not until 2008 had another jewish pitcher hit another grand slam home run. congratula
jim solar merkle whole thing that she misunderstood said i believe the future of the year will dominate our discussions in the coming days. the city that has more herb bridges in any other in the world as pittsburgh. >> congratulations to pittsburg she asked? president romney thought. no. just congratulations. the prime minister of canada it joined a group and introduced himself. are you a french canadian origin? know i am not. but i am canadian the state stone said are you a french...
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so, that is a roundabout way for saying question from jim lehrer or something to the two candidates. should the supreme court looked to the law in making its rulings? why or why not come and watch obama score around that question and hopefully mitt romney can do something sensible about that, which i kind of doubt. but that kind of question should have been asked the six instead of the questions to get from george stephanopoulos on contraception, which to look strange like like battle operation that happened the last few days, doesn't it? anyway, so again, a complicated question that there are things that can start turning this in a different direction the would-be journalists and questioners and the dates and party leaders asking the candidates to talk about these things at more length, and they don't do that much. thank you all very much. [applause] >>> callamore from shreveport weekend here on book tv. >> i am laura, and arc of this year at the library. we are in archives and special collections at noel at lsu st part. we are specializing in the history, dhaka and entering history
so, that is a roundabout way for saying question from jim lehrer or something to the two candidates. should the supreme court looked to the law in making its rulings? why or why not come and watch obama score around that question and hopefully mitt romney can do something sensible about that, which i kind of doubt. but that kind of question should have been asked the six instead of the questions to get from george stephanopoulos on contraception, which to look strange like like battle operation...
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one of your teachers here in the washington area, jim, has been doing much of that where he brings students and to study the different statues around town. they write papers about the statute. i would like to give them a photograph or show them a building maybe two or three students for one building or two or three students from one quarter of the city or the neighborhood and make a little -- they all have these little cameras around. making little documentary or write a play about it or a paper. do a joint effort. figure it out ourselves to make them a figure it out themselves because when you come upon the answer yourself, when you resolve the mystery on your own, you never forget it. and finally, i don't know if that is 5412. [laughter] finally, let them have the chance, please, please, let them have the chance to work with the original documents. to hold those pieces of paper or the nearest facsimile possible in their hands to go to the library of congress, to go to the national archives, to go to the smithsonian and get the idea that this was written by a human being with a piece of pa
one of your teachers here in the washington area, jim, has been doing much of that where he brings students and to study the different statues around town. they write papers about the statute. i would like to give them a photograph or show them a building maybe two or three students for one building or two or three students from one quarter of the city or the neighborhood and make a little -- they all have these little cameras around. making little documentary or write a play about it or a...
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polk, quincy adams a a one term or, jim's james polk a polk a one term or by choice, but by themselves much more difficult -- political difficulties during his one term in office than is needed. june carter in my view of george w. bush and i don't think that hope any of those presidents. but historians consistently have rated both the next consistently for near great category. and voters as i may have a totally different view of them. so let's talk briefly about when the voters and historians converge and a converge on the greatest of the great company and i called leaders of destiny. i have three criteria for those presidents that we put in the category of liters of destiny. these assessments are valid and of themselves not necessarily complete however. consistently high ranking historian polls, and then consistently or high ranking in terms of the voters, to terms by their own party and a third test that i apply presidency transfer of the country's political landscape on a new course. this is very difficult to do for a two-term president and a two-term president elected twice and suc
polk, quincy adams a a one term or, jim's james polk a polk a one term or by choice, but by themselves much more difficult -- political difficulties during his one term in office than is needed. june carter in my view of george w. bush and i don't think that hope any of those presidents. but historians consistently have rated both the next consistently for near great category. and voters as i may have a totally different view of them. so let's talk briefly about when the voters and historians...
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some of our really good one-time president since i had just come out with the presidency book about jim caple. generally considered to be the greatest of the one term presidents. i would like to take a little bit of a different path and compared history's judgment whether contemporaneous judgment on electorate. this is something that i have given some thought you come and i thought that i got to the heart of what obama had to say and what could be a remarkable statement for a president to make. what he was saying essentially is that he is willing to accept unpopularity, even to the point of voter rejection in favor of the esteemed history. my question that i wanted to pursue in the op-ed piece was how realistic is this? i look at history's judgment, and if you've heard history's judgment is generally considered to be the historians, it really began with arthur sledging our senior and a pc that after apple he took. in light mack. it stirred a great deal of interest. he had a real love for the media. there is a general consensus on part of historians and plenty of room for discussion abou
some of our really good one-time president since i had just come out with the presidency book about jim caple. generally considered to be the greatest of the one term presidents. i would like to take a little bit of a different path and compared history's judgment whether contemporaneous judgment on electorate. this is something that i have given some thought you come and i thought that i got to the heart of what obama had to say and what could be a remarkable statement for a president to make....
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this was jim jones deepest fear, his followers would betray him if they left his church. he rather they die first. when somebody is ready to die at the snap of the finger, he told the followers, that's what i want to build in you, that same type of character. he began talking about various methods of dying. drowning, they say is one of the easiest ways in the world to die. it's just a numbing, kind of sleepy sensation. the crowd was solemn. their lack of enthusiasm infuriated him. you get so nervous every time i talk about death, he shouted. he stuck out his tongue pretending to gag like he saw his mother do as she died. the crowd laughed uneasily. an elderly woman refused to smile at the antics, and he turned on her. you're going to die someday, honey, he bellowed. you old bitch, you're going to die. this is taken from audiotape in johnstown. the fbi collected a thousand audio tapes i could use for the first time, and, you know, i can't imagine being in that crowd that night when all of the sudden this man who you respected, this preacher, this progressive, you know, fig
this was jim jones deepest fear, his followers would betray him if they left his church. he rather they die first. when somebody is ready to die at the snap of the finger, he told the followers, that's what i want to build in you, that same type of character. he began talking about various methods of dying. drowning, they say is one of the easiest ways in the world to die. it's just a numbing, kind of sleepy sensation. the crowd was solemn. their lack of enthusiasm infuriated him. you get so...
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jim crow begins in 1895. people have bn enslaved, we are going to stigmatized them elsc antatmorfu anke very difficult for them -- to respect ourselves, come together collectively d resist. that is what american terrorism s bwe 1 i in court all day today. and just got arrested here two months ago and this is the third day we were in court wrestling withhis issue of the attempt 0, of them.rng people. ten% found with anything on them 1% arrested so what do you do? break their spirit. teizraatedthem. sttihe aich cr is still operating and tied to the industrial complex in that regard. matthew briones says i want to ke conen ee j crnde includes the black sisters. men, terrorize black women was very much part of a strategy. of the government. not just talking about fellow is cexivrder t gert 9066, february 19th, 1942, the liberal president, franklin r oano roosevelt, signs the terrorize, traumatized, stigmatize japanese brothers and sisters as a result of the movement. the moment of emergency almost like 11, t meni
jim crow begins in 1895. people have bn enslaved, we are going to stigmatized them elsc antatmorfu anke very difficult for them -- to respect ourselves, come together collectively d resist. that is what american terrorism s bwe 1 i in court all day today. and just got arrested here two months ago and this is the third day we were in court wrestling withhis issue of the attempt 0, of them.rng people. ten% found with anything on them 1% arrested so what do you do? break their spirit....
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they are changing and we have to change. >> thank you, jim. [applause] >> as i was reading, parallel to coming out of this, one was a use of air power in what is now libya in the italian war going back a century ago. another is how to use the latest technology to spread his revolution in the years leading up to independent turkey with ataturk as the leader. i want to turn to austin to talk about ataturk and the parallels to what is going on right now. >> thanks a lot. everyone else has mentioned how many times they have been to austin. i live in austin. [applause] some of you using the pans back and forth find that regrettable but i would say welcome to texas ball. what you have got here. i will address those questions. the technology that parallels with 1911 and 2011. after hearing what jim had to say i want to do something dangerous and stella personal story that is an anecdote that reinforces several things that chin said, coming from a different angle. 1982 i was studying in germany, spend four five month there in anticipation of my ph.d.
they are changing and we have to change. >> thank you, jim. [applause] >> as i was reading, parallel to coming out of this, one was a use of air power in what is now libya in the italian war going back a century ago. another is how to use the latest technology to spread his revolution in the years leading up to independent turkey with ataturk as the leader. i want to turn to austin to talk about ataturk and the parallels to what is going on right now. >> thanks a lot. everyone...
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crow, and that radicalized him to be losing under jim you in alabama while hearing about people who used to have political power and be in office and supporting his own family. >> host: who was that? >> guest: that was my great grandfather. handsome man, wasn't he? in the family lore, he was the first black lawyer in alabama and architect of reconstruction. i grew up to my father repeating this over and over as a teenager when my eyes were gold, and in the book i go off and find out that the outlines of the lore there -- he was -- this is alabama bar in 1878 -- >> host: the alabama bar? >> guest: the alabama bar, not the first colored lawyer in the state, and he did serve in reconstruction, during reconstruction, for two terms in the alabama legislature. >> host: as a radical republican? >> guest: my father always made sure it was known he was a radical republican. by the time he was elected, reconstruction was already closing down, by my great grandfather, the gentleman in the picture, the next 40 years never stopped giving up on this idea that people of color have a national repub
crow, and that radicalized him to be losing under jim you in alabama while hearing about people who used to have political power and be in office and supporting his own family. >> host: who was that? >> guest: that was my great grandfather. handsome man, wasn't he? in the family lore, he was the first black lawyer in alabama and architect of reconstruction. i grew up to my father repeating this over and over as a teenager when my eyes were gold, and in the book i go off and find out...
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then you move from jim crow, senior in this out to jim crow in the north moving you down. not legally is but it's still jim crow to read where you live, lining up banks and so forth. what do black people do? be careful don't push a. we are blues people. we look eight catastrophe street in the face and say like b.b. king i've got style, i've got a smile, i forgot love in my soul and i'm not going to allow those folks to steal it from me, but i'm not as free as i want to be. [laughter] i'm going to sing a song nobody loves me like my mom and she might be jiving, too. it's very hopeful in the way he says it. >> the challenge right now is we have a younger generation who is more and more either selling too much of their soul for anybody up for sale so all they want is just the benjamins, all they want is just money. your grandmother is weeping from the grave, she wants you to be great, she doesn't want you to be just financially successful. she wants you to learn how to love and fight for justice and the courageous and in a man and a woman don't just tell us how well you are d
then you move from jim crow, senior in this out to jim crow in the north moving you down. not legally is but it's still jim crow to read where you live, lining up banks and so forth. what do black people do? be careful don't push a. we are blues people. we look eight catastrophe street in the face and say like b.b. king i've got style, i've got a smile, i forgot love in my soul and i'm not going to allow those folks to steal it from me, but i'm not as free as i want to be. [laughter] i'm going...
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jim johnson said that's fine, just do it our way. he said the regulator should not be allowed to micromanaged fannie and freddie because that might prevent them from doing their job which was to keep the housing market healthy, and to make more and more americans into homeowners. in 1992, congress of elite created a very weak regular for fannie and freddie. one of the very few dissenters was representative jim leach of iowa who noted that the 1992 legislation was largely written by lawyers for fannie mae. after this great victory fannie mae had a huge growth spurt under jim johnson. you can see that for the first, in the '70s and '80s and was still a pretty small agency, but then as we got into the '90s, it started to go very, very fasb part of that was the disappearance of s&ls who in any way for competitors. now one of johnson's main allies and golfing buddies was angelo mozilo, the man with the permanent 10. a son of the butcher from the broad street also love to talk about homeownership, which he found both in ogling and enrichin
jim johnson said that's fine, just do it our way. he said the regulator should not be allowed to micromanaged fannie and freddie because that might prevent them from doing their job which was to keep the housing market healthy, and to make more and more americans into homeowners. in 1992, congress of elite created a very weak regular for fannie and freddie. one of the very few dissenters was representative jim leach of iowa who noted that the 1992 legislation was largely written by lawyers for...
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i went to finish with the language of jim crow. mm o e n'lkut there is the tremendous achievement. udsrns ous fp ca before 50 afan americanvit l itndteic itthwe pd thtundmu ansock wi progress? >> guest: i was looking for michelle obama's ancestors o or. o hestpron t i was then the newberry library. stedoso book and ioedjus. myh is from north carolina. there he was. my great great great grandfathe 40 years old registered to vo to. o iheo ko t nt of people seizing hold of democrywud n o him nd cre >> it reminds us ht en we think fe ntar wmoin st rl dest to lar erf gbak america today. if you believe there is ree u to prt when the challenges o the demise nwk e ere imw. sld vigilant. >> guest: what surprised -- inspired me i said to much about striving. bupoto hts d thstyul h the second point* he th a maph mrbr 1835. ese theis usiherehe obs nt ch i tef isno rct sitear merry and this gentleman born about one year apart. a mississippi ar h w noite1870's senses as 35 year-old s part of the trackmlam tt d ad o a childnar this since this record the last name is that the top and you see the h
i went to finish with the language of jim crow. mm o e n'lkut there is the tremendous achievement. udsrns ous fp ca before 50 afan americanvit l itndteic itthwe pd thtundmu ansock wi progress? >> guest: i was looking for michelle obama's ancestors o or. o hestpron t i was then the newberry library. stedoso book and ioedjus. myh is from north carolina. there he was. my great great great grandfathe 40 years old registered to vo to. o iheo ko t nt of people seizing hold of democrywud n o him...
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as jim mentioned, we were colleagues back when and i have been a jim fallows fan for my whole career. it was a great privilege to have him work and what i appreciated was that when i managed to convince jim to come on board one of my hopes was that he would be a bit of a role model for the very young staff that we have there and he accomplished that in and i greatly am appreciative of that. >> the magazine went from being the baddest magazine in the history of the world to not being around a year later but it was great while we were there. [laughter] >> that's right, rapid rise and fall. there are a lot of kinds of topics we could discuss and i thought i would start out by asking what i think is one of the core questions relating to american relationships with china and especially business relationships with china and it's certainly a core part of the book. and that has to do with how american companies and especially high-tech companies with intellectual property can and should relate to their chinese counterparts. you talk a lot about boeing's enormous role and the role of certain i
as jim mentioned, we were colleagues back when and i have been a jim fallows fan for my whole career. it was a great privilege to have him work and what i appreciated was that when i managed to convince jim to come on board one of my hopes was that he would be a bit of a role model for the very young staff that we have there and he accomplished that in and i greatly am appreciative of that. >> the magazine went from being the baddest magazine in the history of the world to not being...
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the qualifications that jim johnson had. i want to spend the rest of the time i have focusing on a couple of threads. one was the press release that fannie may and jim johnson announced in 1994, the trillion dollar commitment, a couple of thousand word i they went in to great deal about what they were going to do and the national 0 home ownership strategy both of which are discussed in bob's book. i start with lenders ab statement by a community activist the testimony for the senate. i think it represents the point at which the challenge was thrown down that brought fannie may toct with community activists and congress to accomplish this would became trillions and trillions of dollars and the loosening of the underwriting standards. lenders will sphontd most conservative standards unless they are aggressive in convincing in the effort to expand the historically narrow underwriting. i first focus on fannie and freddie and circle back to lenders. i would point out lenders were conservative and that had to be changed in the way
the qualifications that jim johnson had. i want to spend the rest of the time i have focusing on a couple of threads. one was the press release that fannie may and jim johnson announced in 1994, the trillion dollar commitment, a couple of thousand word i they went in to great deal about what they were going to do and the national 0 home ownership strategy both of which are discussed in bob's book. i start with lenders ab statement by a community activist the testimony for the senate. i think it...
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c-span: what was the story of jim brister? >> guest: well, jim was one of those cowboys, who spent most of his life at the ranch. he came there when he was about 18 years old. he was from oklahoma originally and he was a huge redhead with massive shoulders, strong fellow, and he had married a little woman, who was not 5' tall, named may, and may said that she wasn't more than 13 years old when they got married and he had worked as a--in the wild west show. he learned to ride horses early on, and he was quite a--quite a skillful rider and a fantastic roper. he could just handle a rope like nobody else. and he worked in the wild west shows that were going around the country. and he and may would follow the wild west shows, and that's what he did. and i think it must have been when movies started, silent films or something, people stopped going to the wild west shows, and then jim started working on different ranches around the country. and, typically, he would ride the--the wild string of horses, the--the tough ones that hadn't
c-span: what was the story of jim brister? >> guest: well, jim was one of those cowboys, who spent most of his life at the ranch. he came there when he was about 18 years old. he was from oklahoma originally and he was a huge redhead with massive shoulders, strong fellow, and he had married a little woman, who was not 5' tall, named may, and may said that she wasn't more than 13 years old when they got married and he had worked as a--in the wild west show. he learned to ride horses early...
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. >> host: jim e-mails you, mr. kyle, how many unconfirmed kills do you estimate you have, or were all of yours -- did you train with the m25 white feather rifle? >> guest: no, i never used that rifle, and as far as the unconfirmed kills, you never count those. it's -- there's no point in keeping track of what could have been or what might have been. just wasting your time, and your whole thing is you are out there to take the bad guys off the streets to make it safer for your guys and allow more of your guys to make it home, and the ideal thing would be, if i knew the number of lives i saved. that's something i would love to be known for, but you can't calculate that. >> host: what was your reaction at the time to a kill? >> guest: i mean, when you're looking at these people, you're not thinking of them more or less as people. they are a target because, you know, most of the time, they are actively engaging trying to kill your guys, and so you're trying to see yourself as the guardian angel to protect the guys on t
. >> host: jim e-mails you, mr. kyle, how many unconfirmed kills do you estimate you have, or were all of yours -- did you train with the m25 white feather rifle? >> guest: no, i never used that rifle, and as far as the unconfirmed kills, you never count those. it's -- there's no point in keeping track of what could have been or what might have been. just wasting your time, and your whole thing is you are out there to take the bad guys off the streets to make it safer for your guys...
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jim talent start with you. what happened and why? >> well, the union navy was on a roll in the fall and winter of 61 and 62, in the spring of 62. and it looked like they were going to open up the mississippi river quickly in the summer of 1862. vicksburg was really the only confederate bastion still on the mississippi river and both the seagoing fleet under now admiral farragut came all the way up through the gulf of mexico to vicksburg. the so-called western flotilla of river gunboats, had talked his way down the mississippi capturing them on the way. they combined to mark martin vicksburg but it was clear that the city, the batteries could not be taken without support of army troops. and general halleck who was the army commander of the theater, i like to call him general can't be done, told farragut asked if he could spare some of his 100,000 troops to help a railroad junction, to capture vicksburg. and how it said can't be done. don't have enough troops. and the level of the river was dropping so much, the union naval forces and
jim talent start with you. what happened and why? >> well, the union navy was on a roll in the fall and winter of 61 and 62, in the spring of 62. and it looked like they were going to open up the mississippi river quickly in the summer of 1862. vicksburg was really the only confederate bastion still on the mississippi river and both the seagoing fleet under now admiral farragut came all the way up through the gulf of mexico to vicksburg. the so-called western flotilla of river gunboats,...
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i'm jim millington, library of congress. we hope you have been enjoying this extraordinary national book festival. [applause] >> we have involved more authors than at any time in the 12 year history of this festival, and it's for them we're especially thankful. your responses make the free public event possible, and one of them is the wells fargo, which has been the sponsor of this particular pavilion, history and biography. in a moment, i introduce to you michael l. golden, wells fargo's regional president for greater washington, d.c., who will introduce our closing authors today. we're privileged to have with him, of course, not only an extraordinary biographer but also the two inheritors of the legacy of the man who is not only led what is often called the greatest generation to victory in the world war ii, but also led the country to eight years of peace and prosperity, which are now becoming recognized in good part thanks to these authors we have with us today, to close things out. being recognized by historians for the
i'm jim millington, library of congress. we hope you have been enjoying this extraordinary national book festival. [applause] >> we have involved more authors than at any time in the 12 year history of this festival, and it's for them we're especially thankful. your responses make the free public event possible, and one of them is the wells fargo, which has been the sponsor of this particular pavilion, history and biography. in a moment, i introduce to you michael l. golden, wells fargo's...
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and if we can do it on the highway bill, if -- if i could do it with jim inhofe, if debbie stabenow can do it with pat roberts on the farm bill, i know -- and there are other examples i could give. i could give examples of senator feinstein with her republican counterpart. i could give many examples on the appropriations committee. we know we can do this. we just have to take a deep breath and put our ego as side for this country's sake and make those compromise that allow us to still stand tall. now, i'm only five feet so that's hard, but you get the point. we can do this and we should do it now. and if we don't do it now, we should vote on the president's plan because the people of this country deserve better than to be left hanging on a cliff. they don't deserve that. it's not right. thank you very much. i yield the floor. note the absence of a quorum and ask that the time be charged -- the presiding officer: who yields time? mrs. boxer: i would note the absence of a quorum and ask that the time be equally divided between the two sides. the presiding officer: without objection. the c
and if we can do it on the highway bill, if -- if i could do it with jim inhofe, if debbie stabenow can do it with pat roberts on the farm bill, i know -- and there are other examples i could give. i could give examples of senator feinstein with her republican counterpart. i could give many examples on the appropriations committee. we know we can do this. we just have to take a deep breath and put our ego as side for this country's sake and make those compromise that allow us to still stand...
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the lberation army and the kidnapping of patty, jim jones and the peles temple andow thbe srue eio e au al mpseearont city nd the than double the assassination of the mayor. one thing after the next ciam ta iid rlites cd ro hnee th an openness to the new to change to experimentation. i think they are deeply embedded in the city and now that we e ownivar t lure ri e oe tri esg trgt o. dsonsras id obama's embraced of gay marriage that shows how relevant these values still are so i'm very proud of the city. tnehk its a borat fodimaanhd rr ammnt century, a livable minimum wage, universal health care, which clulieitadthre alhealwrogo here first and san francisco, and now the rest of the country fox news is grappling with them so i would say right on, san ancio. iwan to give an anecdote to your comment. we es horizons, a chinese grl who was going to bring to the united statesctuay t i ended up thfijo ihnd in mead lnlady they were like the gradfather of the neighborhood and so they had ver t ns or ate ndtherol [ltee ania one of their relatives were disappointed becse i wasn't when itthem s
the lberation army and the kidnapping of patty, jim jones and the peles temple andow thbe srue eio e au al mpseearont city nd the than double the assassination of the mayor. one thing after the next ciam ta iid rlites cd ro hnee th an openness to the new to change to experimentation. i think they are deeply embedded in the city and now that we e ownivar t lure ri e oe tri esg trgt o. dsonsras id obama's embraced of gay marriage that shows how relevant these values still are so i'm very proud of...
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the candid suspending great jim moret have a considerable edge. there are some lows been intended to one. president silly at the there is so much free media, so much coverage by the networks and everything online. people get what they need to know what the candidates, even if they ever see the advertisement. a little different. adult ticket matters as much. maybe in one area, and that is our contact. getting off about, not so much of the election day as early voting. taking your votes. that is somewhat romney has won a number of these ) varies. he has the money to bank votes early. we will see how he does in the fall. president obama probably will have considerably more money. >> a normal basis, possibly falls normally, are you surprised that they sit there and decided to back. >> welcome it is becoming rare. it is becoming something that you don't hear very often for people. often people will tell you, well, an independent. i could go another direction. when you really examine their voting record and are a listing get to the use you find that the
the candid suspending great jim moret have a considerable edge. there are some lows been intended to one. president silly at the there is so much free media, so much coverage by the networks and everything online. people get what they need to know what the candidates, even if they ever see the advertisement. a little different. adult ticket matters as much. maybe in one area, and that is our contact. getting off about, not so much of the election day as early voting. taking your votes. that is...
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right after the music, jim comes out and says now it is time to take up the offering. right out of the gate. music, take up the offering and everyone cheered that they were going to get the gift. i could use a little of that, i am sure. we ended the sermon, there was a very sort of the kind of prayer and then it was over. i have never been at what was ostensibly a church service where there was so little god, jesus, religion anything. it was all political and was all paranoid. it was their coming to get us. and we have got to get ready. i am not even sure i absorbent the insight that it gave me. but it sure made me understand more about the fear that is out there and are often behind the vitriol that we experience. i think we had better pay attention to that. when someone comes at me either directly or indirectly with something awful the way i try to stay sympathetic to them is to ask the question what are they afraid of? and is there anything i can say that convinces them there's really no need to be afraid. this was a double dose of that. it really shook me and helpe
right after the music, jim comes out and says now it is time to take up the offering. right out of the gate. music, take up the offering and everyone cheered that they were going to get the gift. i could use a little of that, i am sure. we ended the sermon, there was a very sort of the kind of prayer and then it was over. i have never been at what was ostensibly a church service where there was so little god, jesus, religion anything. it was all political and was all paranoid. it was their...
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it was a great privilege to have jim work of worked in the industry standard. what i appreciated was that when i managed to convince them to come on board with microsoft, one of my hopes was that he would be a bit of able model for the very young staff that we have there. i have always been greatly appreciative of that. >> it was a great time. jonathan was a great editor and the magazine went from being the fattest magazine in the history of the world to not being around a cheerleader. [applause] [applause] >> we were not around a year later, a rapid rise and fall. i thought i would start out by asking what i think is one of the core questions relating to the american relationship to china and especially business relationships to china. certainly, a core part of the book. that has to do with how american companies, and especially high-tech companies can and should relate to their chinese counterparts. you talk a lot about boeing's enormous role and the role of individuals in building up the aerospace industry. very close industry with boeing and other companies
it was a great privilege to have jim work of worked in the industry standard. what i appreciated was that when i managed to convince them to come on board with microsoft, one of my hopes was that he would be a bit of able model for the very young staff that we have there. i have always been greatly appreciative of that. >> it was a great time. jonathan was a great editor and the magazine went from being the fattest magazine in the history of the world to not being around a cheerleader....
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he was one of the last jim crow demagogue. what we forget about thurmond is that he was also one of the first of the sun belt conservatives. what do i mean by that? what's a sun belt conservative? the sun belt, it's one of the big stories, one of the major stories in the history of 20th century american politics. and that is the flow of jobs, of industry, of resources and population from the states of the northeast and the midwest to the south and the southwest in the post-world war ii period. the southern states were recruiting industries. they were passing right-to-work laws. they were receiving lots of funding from the federal government to build military installations at a time when the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. so states like mississippi, states like georgia and texas and florida and southern california, arizona, north carolina are all being transformed in the post-world war ii period by this historic shift in population and political influence. just think about it. really does t
he was one of the last jim crow demagogue. what we forget about thurmond is that he was also one of the first of the sun belt conservatives. what do i mean by that? what's a sun belt conservative? the sun belt, it's one of the big stories, one of the major stories in the history of 20th century american politics. and that is the flow of jobs, of industry, of resources and population from the states of the northeast and the midwest to the south and the southwest in the post-world war ii period....
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there certainly are, but the disparity can't be explained by old-school jim crow digga tree. instead you have a collection of factors including neighborhood segregation such that racial minority groups particularly african-americans are more likely to reside in neighborhoods where crime rates are high in. they are more likely therefore to get caught up in crime and particularly the king kind of conspicuous crimes that attract police attention. you have the problem of economically deprived neighborhoods, neighborhoods and which in which in some cases be gray market which is already teetering on the edge of criminality is one of the main sources of income for many people so you have a hold, the isolation of the underclass such that they don't have access to job opportunities. they don't have access to good role models. all of these factors that are legacy of past discrimination but for the most part not the result of ongoing bigotry and ongoing overt discrimination. these are resulting in high incarceration rates for young black men so you have a collection of social injustices
there certainly are, but the disparity can't be explained by old-school jim crow digga tree. instead you have a collection of factors including neighborhood segregation such that racial minority groups particularly african-americans are more likely to reside in neighborhoods where crime rates are high in. they are more likely therefore to get caught up in crime and particularly the king kind of conspicuous crimes that attract police attention. you have the problem of economically deprived...
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you were way down in the polls, you were running against jim thompson. you wound up losing by just 5,000 votes, and the illinois supreme court just days before the inauguration voted to deny a recount of that vote, sue -- seymour simon, democrat, you were told he was a zionist, they explained. what is more, his family received business from my opponent, governor james thompson. so what are you saying was seymour simon's motives in his vote? >> we won that election. ask alderman burke, ask any of the observers, there was no question. we have eyewitnesses in dupage county they were punching out the punch card to express the intent of the voter. the evidence was overwhelming. well, oh, it's a long, painful story. [laughter] in 1967, my wife is here and i, we trailed israeli troops into the golan heights, and we saw the evidence of ethnic cleansing. and that woke me up. and i went back many times over the years throughout the region. and in 1977 after the good came into power and systematically began colonizing, occupying, colonizing, settling the west bank
you were way down in the polls, you were running against jim thompson. you wound up losing by just 5,000 votes, and the illinois supreme court just days before the inauguration voted to deny a recount of that vote, sue -- seymour simon, democrat, you were told he was a zionist, they explained. what is more, his family received business from my opponent, governor james thompson. so what are you saying was seymour simon's motives in his vote? >> we won that election. ask alderman burke, ask...
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but i would say beyond jim-crow he was a child of the great depression. his father left, so he was raised by a mother. a single mom raising the only child. they were poor. he would have an argument with his mother. mom wants me to eat dog food reverse so broke. his mother said trouble. that did not happen. the point is, it was poverty that he dealt with. he thought what fdr was doing was the way out of it, and he first met fdr, as early as 1928 when the democratic convention was held in houston. and he was such a political junkie, cronkite went to both the democrat and republican conventions in 1928, and he was just a boy, 12 years old. he was already at to political conventions. wearing the pins and getting into that thing. it became a passion of his all his life, the conventions. >> i have a hard time, even though i have seen the photos of him wearing world war ii garb, i just have a hard time visualizing uncle walter parachuting into your. can you give -- you know, ernie pyle was killed certainly other reporters were under fire as war correspondents, c
but i would say beyond jim-crow he was a child of the great depression. his father left, so he was raised by a mother. a single mom raising the only child. they were poor. he would have an argument with his mother. mom wants me to eat dog food reverse so broke. his mother said trouble. that did not happen. the point is, it was poverty that he dealt with. he thought what fdr was doing was the way out of it, and he first met fdr, as early as 1928 when the democratic convention was held in...
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the first book came out year ago called the murder of jim fisk for the love of josie mansfield. was the story of a gilded age love triangle gone wrong. that was the first installment. the second installment is "the heartbreak of aaron burr". if you should choose to buy the book you will see -- i will find it for you -- you will see that it has the appearance of a novel. for example there is no table of contents. there is no author's preface. there is no index. the chapters don't have chapter names. however, you might think -- if you hadn't come tonight and picked this book up unsuspecting i would be delighted if you read at least the first part of it thinking it was indeed a novel because if that was the case, and presumably you would have been drawn into this world that you thought i had created but in fact is world that really exists. i wanted to use the techniques of the novel writing. i don't use the techniques of making up dialogue. every bit of dialogue was really spoken or written by the characters. you can't do this about every character. what you need is the raw materia
the first book came out year ago called the murder of jim fisk for the love of josie mansfield. was the story of a gilded age love triangle gone wrong. that was the first installment. the second installment is "the heartbreak of aaron burr". if you should choose to buy the book you will see -- i will find it for you -- you will see that it has the appearance of a novel. for example there is no table of contents. there is no author's preface. there is no index. the chapters don't have...
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following enactment of the health care law grace-marie turner along with jim carpenter with ethics and policy center, tom miller at the american enterprise institute and art trudy bob moss that of the heritage foundation joined together to publish the book "why obamacare is wrong for america". please help me in welcoming them to heritage today. [applause] >> we will start with our. sally. >> thank you. i am delighted to be here with my friends michael tanner and grace-marie turner as well. with the historic vote the 2700 page patient protection and affordable care act was passed into law on march 23rd, 2010. how fast two years have gone. almost the second anniversary. as nina mentioned it was interesting to me the state of the union on tuesday evenings the president devoted only 44 words to health-care reform. i think it has to do with the fact as nina said that will leave 53% of americans support repeal of this legislation. i wrote my first book the truth about obamacare when nancy pelosi said we have to pass this law to find out what is in it i thought i could write something in 257
following enactment of the health care law grace-marie turner along with jim carpenter with ethics and policy center, tom miller at the american enterprise institute and art trudy bob moss that of the heritage foundation joined together to publish the book "why obamacare is wrong for america". please help me in welcoming them to heritage today. [applause] >> we will start with our. sally. >> thank you. i am delighted to be here with my friends michael tanner and...
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. >> jim lakely is the director of the heartland institute. your website? >> heartland.org. .. democrats. which, to me, means they are dissatisfied with the system and dissatisfied with the two-party. i've been covering politics for a long time, and i wanted to address this. i wanted to get at what are these voters looking for? who are these voters? what do they care about? what to do what? how can we fix things? because i don't think anyone could say that we -- our system has become fairly dysfunctional. so this larger voting block in the nation have determined the outcome of every election since world war two. the swing voters that the book is named for. ignored and unrepresented and not having as saying really and how politics and government is run. and i begin the book with thomas paine. i end the book with thomas paine. not to be too grandiose, and someone accused me of using the fingers last night when i use that word among but common sense, thomas paine book that lit the fuse of the revolution. i call for democratic republic to be governed by the people. and i think we n
. >> jim lakely is the director of the heartland institute. your website? >> heartland.org. .. democrats. which, to me, means they are dissatisfied with the system and dissatisfied with the two-party. i've been covering politics for a long time, and i wanted to address this. i wanted to get at what are these voters looking for? who are these voters? what do they care about? what to do what? how can we fix things? because i don't think anyone could say that we -- our system has...
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i'm jim enter from the american spectator, and we are here today to discuss a new book by grover norquist, public enemy number one of taxation in america, and the economist, john lott. over the next few months we will be hearing a lot of positive statistics from the president about how he is turning the economy around and deserves a second term on the basis of progress toward reducing unemployment and making all kinds of the economic situation better, moving us away from the great recession. the book that we are discussing today, however, paints a much different picture of the president's economic policies. it sums up very well the book's title, debacle. and i don't think a lot of their portrayals that the president's record will be on jobs, economic growth instead of regulation and spending and deficit spending perpetuated by this administration will be very different from what i think you will be hearing on the campaign trail from the incumbent president. so to ticket of we will have grover start with his talk about what they are trying to do. their vision for the economy under obama. >
i'm jim enter from the american spectator, and we are here today to discuss a new book by grover norquist, public enemy number one of taxation in america, and the economist, john lott. over the next few months we will be hearing a lot of positive statistics from the president about how he is turning the economy around and deserves a second term on the basis of progress toward reducing unemployment and making all kinds of the economic situation better, moving us away from the great recession....
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those are positive images to print images of a racist nation, certainly well founded on slavery and jim crow. we have an image of imperialism, an image of arrogance, all sorts of images that are there by the thousands. so i've been looking at imagery that you can't stop there. that's the beginning of the issue, the beginning of the issue in "american avatar." the real question then becomes how in the world do people decide which image to invoke, which image to articulate? if you come and walking on asking people their opinion, and then they give you more than opinion, favorable or unfavorable. they may tell you things, here is a pakistani journalist writing, the wave of anti-americanism is writing about the fans and pakistan even among many who once admired the united states and the short reason for that is plain, that, presume it is american plans to bring peace to afghanistan for. the killing is to going on and excuse that they of americans have now expanded the war into pakistan. invoking what they did in the 1960s when the vietnam war moved into cambodia. moreover, while pakistan's
those are positive images to print images of a racist nation, certainly well founded on slavery and jim crow. we have an image of imperialism, an image of arrogance, all sorts of images that are there by the thousands. so i've been looking at imagery that you can't stop there. that's the beginning of the issue, the beginning of the issue in "american avatar." the real question then becomes how in the world do people decide which image to invoke, which image to articulate? if you come...
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it's less about jim fisk. and, but because it's nominally a history book, my publisher wanted to include a photograph of josie mansfield. after all, it's a history book, and there's a photograph of this femme fatale, let's see it. but i didn't want to use the photograph. and i didn't want to use the photograph because two reasons. one is if you look at the photograph of josie, it's pretty -- the camera does not capture that essence that drove men crazy. you look at it and say, really? [laughter] the other thing is that novels don't have photographs. novels don't have illustrations of the main characters. the whole point of writing is to create a word picture. and so if i wrote a description of josie and then had a photograph of josie, either the writing would be -- it would either be wrong, or it would be redundant. and either way it would lose its force. but my editor insisted, and so there's a picture of josie. anyhow, josie was one story, theo -- burr -- was another. and i knew the end of the theo burr stor
it's less about jim fisk. and, but because it's nominally a history book, my publisher wanted to include a photograph of josie mansfield. after all, it's a history book, and there's a photograph of this femme fatale, let's see it. but i didn't want to use the photograph. and i didn't want to use the photograph because two reasons. one is if you look at the photograph of josie, it's pretty -- the camera does not capture that essence that drove men crazy. you look at it and say, really?...
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he demonstrated what said loving lefty he is by going to twitter to call senator jim inhoffe and oil horror and he should retire to a solar powered gay bar. i don't think that exist. [laughter] i could be wrong. maybe that is what we have to wheel forward to. tell liberals tell us to express our sexuality? march on the campus or on the streets. rather than and talk about gay-rights if he was truly tolerant he would offer him his first homosexual experience. [laughter] are rihanna having 10, the darling of the left. she pulls off what many thought not possible and sold the "huffington post" at $315 million and got $100 million out of the deal the 9,000 bloggers six years working for her for free? they got nothing. zero. the full amount was of flow fashion one said we made in the post and we are being abandoned. another disgruntled sucker said he regrets her publishing $25,000 worth of content and then a real slap in the face he said she not only sold hearse sold but her demise of exploitation that when she sold the "huffington post" to a a well she made the left and base so of said i
he demonstrated what said loving lefty he is by going to twitter to call senator jim inhoffe and oil horror and he should retire to a solar powered gay bar. i don't think that exist. [laughter] i could be wrong. maybe that is what we have to wheel forward to. tell liberals tell us to express our sexuality? march on the campus or on the streets. rather than and talk about gay-rights if he was truly tolerant he would offer him his first homosexual experience. [laughter] are rihanna having 10, the...
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the old max jim by people used to be, i don't do anything wrong so i don't have anything to worry about. what you're suggesting is the most everyday things can look nefarious,. >> guest: the most everyday thing. so one woman was in a workplace injury. she had to go through four spinal injuries, pins in her neck, and when she sued, in a legitimate suit, the judge included into evidence anything on her myspace page or facebook page, and the judge said, she is smiling. she couldn't possibly be harmed. so, who would think that a smiling photo that maybe was taken before the accident, would come back to haunt her. or in los angeles, where we are now, the penalties for young people can be enhanced if they're wearing gang colors on the facebook page. what's a gang color? i looked up the l.a.p.d. rules and it's plaid. i have a 23-year-old son and he wears plaid all the time, or all black, and think new york art opening, and a picture of yourself in a plaid shirt might give you five more years. >> host: next up, a call from laura in arkansas. >> caller: hi. i appreciate your time. i find you're
the old max jim by people used to be, i don't do anything wrong so i don't have anything to worry about. what you're suggesting is the most everyday things can look nefarious,. >> guest: the most everyday thing. so one woman was in a workplace injury. she had to go through four spinal injuries, pins in her neck, and when she sued, in a legitimate suit, the judge included into evidence anything on her myspace page or facebook page, and the judge said, she is smiling. she couldn't possibly...
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and she said he gives me orders, um, why don't you, you know, call bill and jim and tom and give them the following orderlies, and he would speak very fast. she imitated him like that. and then she said i would get on the phone to secretary number one, hi, alma, how are you doing, and i would make sure that she received the message in good spirit and that it got there. and, um, then she would call the second secretary and the third. and at the end she said this man has outsourced patience to me. [laughter] yeah. >> thank you so much for that wonderful talk. i was wondering so how -- do you think that these services, do they by monetizing or legitimating the services we think through to the masseuse ad posted, i think, on craig's list, does it somehow acknowledge the often unacknowledged of housewifery in a way that even for the people who don't pay for the service or as we're thinking back through history? is there something so powerful to be gained through this that, you know, the labors that were once the job of stay-at-home mothers were actually of extraordinary economic value, or
and she said he gives me orders, um, why don't you, you know, call bill and jim and tom and give them the following orderlies, and he would speak very fast. she imitated him like that. and then she said i would get on the phone to secretary number one, hi, alma, how are you doing, and i would make sure that she received the message in good spirit and that it got there. and, um, then she would call the second secretary and the third. and at the end she said this man has outsourced patience to...
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she worked on the house side for representative representative jim demint as well as representatives do where you can also work in the senate earlier than that for senator jesse helme. please join me in welcoming my colleague commented nina poacher ringo. [applause] >> thank you two of you for being better than today. tuesday in a president obama. he mentioned his landmark legislative victory, the patient protection and affordable care and there's no wonder the americans continue to dislike a health care a lot more like it. it seems every day there's a new glitch or contradiction that services raising work out the elaborate plan can actually work. further complicating matters for the administration is the decision by the supreme court to consider the law's constitutionality. but with a toothpick if b-bravo, it is still critically important that americans are reminded unless the supreme court strikes down the block in its entirety, there's still plenty to be concerned about. today we are going to hear from a distinguished panel of health care experts who will discuss why full repeal m
she worked on the house side for representative representative jim demint as well as representatives do where you can also work in the senate earlier than that for senator jesse helme. please join me in welcoming my colleague commented nina poacher ringo. [applause] >> thank you two of you for being better than today. tuesday in a president obama. he mentioned his landmark legislative victory, the patient protection and affordable care and there's no wonder the americans continue to...
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francis and jim carey. plumb some brown hair slicked down the front of my cape and a cool breeze chilled my hair. after some time i summoned up enough courage to live in the mayor. wow. eleven years of puppy should i'm sure none of these treasures ever asked her to fashion this. this but this being a first effort in was flawless. she was my st. paul mitchell. i handed him the mayor and she looked at me very sincerely and said in be, now with gun he'd tr at. ag slipped outside into the darkened alley way. i reach our door. i slid the key instantly. once inside a reached -- with the baseball cap on and snapped with the bath from behalf with-spotted me. let's see. just a minute. apparently took off my clothes. a naked. were married she said. no, no. scene now let's go. oh, no. i could have closed the door, but i figured she needed to see me so she could start acclimating. add just need to tidy up my temples i said. there are a bit stubbly. oh, -- zero of sterling. no, no. it's okay. but throwback. no. the only
francis and jim carey. plumb some brown hair slicked down the front of my cape and a cool breeze chilled my hair. after some time i summoned up enough courage to live in the mayor. wow. eleven years of puppy should i'm sure none of these treasures ever asked her to fashion this. this but this being a first effort in was flawless. she was my st. paul mitchell. i handed him the mayor and she looked at me very sincerely and said in be, now with gun he'd tr at. ag slipped outside into the darkened...
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jim lakely is the communication director for the institute. first of all, what is the heartland institute? >> the heart and as it is libertarian think tank based in chicago, illinois recovered domestic policy and our mission is to discover, promote and send out to the public free-market solutions to social and economic problems and we been doing that for 28 years. >> who founded you click >> we were founded by james h. patton who is a big week at the cato institute and a giant in the free-market movement. and president of the institute has been just a pass since 1984. >> you also published book and i want to ask you about a couple. let's begin with this in my herber walberg, school choice the finest. >> one of the issues the heartland institute's push for decades now is the idea of having many faulty parents and having would not have been student achievement does rise. and so, herber walberg, whenever senior fellows is very interested in this topic and is very knowledgeable. he's also a fellow at the hoover dictation and has written two books
jim lakely is the communication director for the institute. first of all, what is the heartland institute? >> the heart and as it is libertarian think tank based in chicago, illinois recovered domestic policy and our mission is to discover, promote and send out to the public free-market solutions to social and economic problems and we been doing that for 28 years. >> who founded you click >> we were founded by james h. patton who is a big week at the cato institute and a giant...
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jim billings took the idea from laura bush and made it a national event. it's an idea she had in texas. when she was first lady, brought it to washington, jim ran with the idea, didn't get the funding they would have liked, and so i helped with the funding. >> you're presenting an award, i understand, today? >> yes, i'm presenting awards to dc students who won awards for their essays about the books they have written or read and that they've written about i should say. >> when it comes to book festivals, nationwide there are festivals, are you supporting any others? >> no, i live in the washington area, so this was the best to support. there's a book festival in every country and state. the more people read, the better off the country and world is. >> what are you currently reading? >> i read about six or seven books a week. strictly fiction and books about biography and history and so forth. >> and timely, what is the carlisle group? >> carlisle group is a private equity firm i started with other people in 1987, based in washington, d.c., and we buy compa
jim billings took the idea from laura bush and made it a national event. it's an idea she had in texas. when she was first lady, brought it to washington, jim ran with the idea, didn't get the funding they would have liked, and so i helped with the funding. >> you're presenting an award, i understand, today? >> yes, i'm presenting awards to dc students who won awards for their essays about the books they have written or read and that they've written about i should say. >> when...
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he went back to vietnam with his son jim who's one of the proponents of the mission. he was the highest ranking military figure to return to vietnam at that time. and he was a leader in convincing president clinton to open, to normalize relations with vietnam. and that's another interesting -- and, actually, president clinton asked him to get general westmoreland onboard on all this. and bud played a very central role in getting general westmoreland to recognize the importance of opening up a relationship with vietnam. and so the watch really never ended for bud. and that's why in 1998 the president of the united states, bill clinton, would give him the presidential medal of freedom for everything he had done on behalf of generations of people. he never stopped fighting, as president clinton said. never stopped fighting for those who had no power. so my book is not so much a story about his different commands, and it's not an official naval history. i leave that to the next generation of naval historians who will have is the access to those materials. this is really t
he went back to vietnam with his son jim who's one of the proponents of the mission. he was the highest ranking military figure to return to vietnam at that time. and he was a leader in convincing president clinton to open, to normalize relations with vietnam. and that's another interesting -- and, actually, president clinton asked him to get general westmoreland onboard on all this. and bud played a very central role in getting general westmoreland to recognize the importance of opening up a...